Impressionistic film based on a Maupassant story about five friends who fall in love with the same beautiful girl one summer.
In 1900, Stepha, the vivacious 30 year old daughter of a wealthy couple, agrees to marry her cousin Paul, who has accumulated large debts as an Austrian army officer. Paul refuses to work or to consummate the marriage, and then his health steadily declines.
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
